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Category: Saints’ Lives
I Sermoni Sant’Antonio di Padova
Messaggero di Sant’Antonio, 2002. Hardcover with dust jacket. 1,324 pages. Condizione: leggermente ingiallita, qualche macchia, nessuna sottolineatura. I Sermoni possono considerarsi la summa della scienza biblica e teologica e dell’azione pastorale di sant’Antonio. Un volume utile per chiunque voglia entrare in diretto contatto con la predicazione, il pensiero, la spiritualità del santo. €10.00
How Catholic Art Saved the Faith
The Triumph of Beauty and Truth in Counter-Reformation Art. Elizabeth Lev. Sophia Institute, ©2018. Paperback, 310 pp. Desperate to restore the peace and recover the unity of Faith, Catholic theologians clarified and reaffirmed Catholic doctrines, but turned as well to another form of evangelization: the Arts. Convinced that to win over the unlettered, the best place to fight heresy was…
Relics. What They Are and Why They Matter
Joan Carroll Cruz. Our Sunday Visitor, 1984. Softcover, 308 pages. 8 pages of color photos with additional b/w. €5. Scripture speaks of miracles wrought through relics: a dead man was raised when Elisha’s bones touched him, and the clothing of Jesus and His apostles healed the sick. In the early Church, Masses were celebrated over the bones of the martyrs,…
Mother of God and Her Glorious Feasts
The Mother of God and Her Glorious Feasts. Fr. H. O’Laverty, B.A. TAN Books, 1987 edition. Softcover, 198 pages. €5. One of the truly remarkable Catholic books the reader will ever encounter and is much more than a book about Mary. Mother of God and Her Glorious Feasts gives a complete view of the Catholic way of life and is…
San Gennaro
San Gennaro. Storia di un culto, di un mito, dell’anima di un popolo. Vittorio Paliotti. Bompiani Overlook, 2001. Softcover, 288 pp. Con più di 205 illustrazioni in nero e a colori. Cartone originale bicolore. Pages have yellowed with age. €5. Oggetto di venerazione e talvolta superstizione, San Gennaro rappresenta certamente un fenomeno culturale e religioso di grande interesse. Patrono di…
The Vatican Masterpieces
Enrico Bruschini. Scala. Size: 250 x 210 mm / 8.25 x 10 in. Softcover, Pages: 144. Images: 160 €10. The Vatican Museums contain some of the greatest Western art. Collected by successive popes since the early 15th century, thousands of works of art are housed in the papal palace and elsewhere in the Vatican. With several museums, Library exhibition rooms…
Autobiography St. Teresa of Avila
TAN books. 2012 edition. Paperback: 560 p. English. 216 x 140 mm. Peso: 748 gr. binding is good. Like new. €10. There exists only about 5 autobiographies of saints. This is believed to be her first draft, having no time to go back and make corrections or clarifications. Excellent introduction to her life and thought. Carmelite spirituality is based on…
The Incorruptibles
Joan Carroll Cruz. €5. Continuously popular since it first appeared in 1977, this book remains the acknowledged classic on the bodies of Saints that did not undergo decomposition after death, many remaining fresh and flexible for years, or even centuries. After explaining both natural and artificial mummification, the author shows that the incorruption of the Saints bodies fits into neither…
Mary and the Fathers of the Church
The Blessed Virgin Mary in Patristic Thought. Luigi Gambero, Ignatius Press, 1999. Softcover, 439 pages. €10. Father Luigi Gambero, internationally-known expert on early Christianity, presents a comprehensive survey of the development of Marian doctrine and devotion during the first eight centuries. Focusing on the lives and works of over thirty of the most famous Church Fathers and early Christian writers,…